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Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by jianshen »

Javascript Engineer @ Meebo - Mountain View, CA / New Yawk, NY USA

We're looking for people who really enjoy coding Javascript as their core language. Stuff we're working on right now:

* A completely vector driven UI layer (in SVG/VML/CSS3 where available)

* Improving the way our applications are delivered to the browser (app caching, css parser and inline image encoding, code optimization engines)

* Improving our JS network transport layer that talks to the server gateways. Almost everything we do is asynchronous since we do IM and notifications (comet/async)

* Fast session and UI state transitions across page loads

* On the server side, we do a lot with couchDB too.

http://www.meebo.com/jobs/openings/ or ping me directly: jian AT meebo-inc DOT com

We don't normally do remote/tele but we should still talk if you find this stuff as interesting as we do. :)

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by yish »

Groupon is hiring for multiple engineering positions in Palo Alto and Chicago. Take a look at our job board or contact me directly at my username at groupon.com if you are interested in doing anything tech related.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by guywithabike »

Back-end Ruby devs, front-end devs, full-stack devs - San Francisco, CA, USA

Here's the standard boilerplate from our job postings:

CrowdFlower is changing the way work gets done. We build a quality control system that distributes work to half a mlilion people around the world, and analyzes the results to guarantee the highest possible accuracy. We have a real business model, our revenues are growing, and we're venture-backed. We also have a sweet office in the Mission at 16th and Valencia. It's taco time—all the time.

We offer an array of excellent benefits: health insurance, new MacBook Pros, 30" monitors, free drinks and snacks, indoor bike parking, and flexible work hours. Also, we boast the biggest collection of office plants this side of the Mississippi.

But really, there's no more exciting place to work as a developer right now.

If you're interested in learning more about what it's like to work here, email me at tyson@crowdflower.com I'll spill all our secrets!

Here's our job list: http://crowdflower.jobscore.com/jobs/crowdflower/list

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by asml »

Software Engineer – Cupertino, CA

Apple.

Working on the iWork team. Our apps are the top grossing on the iPad app store. The job is dealing with how documents are persisted to storage; lots of interesting problems dealing with a scale that most other iPad apps aren't anywhere close to yet. You'll also be working on iWork for the Mac. It's a fun, distributed team and your work will be used by a huge audience.

Sorry, no telecommuting.

http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?method=mExternal.showJob&#38...

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by sanj »

Developers - Newton (~Boston), USA (no telecommute, sorry)

TripAdvisor is a super popular website in the Boston area -- we recently became the most-visited travel site on the web with over a million unique visitors per day.

While we have huge traffic, happy users and are crazy profitable, we're not standing still: We just launched a cool Facebook Connect implementation lets you see where you friends have been and ask them for advice. It takes advantage on our existing Facebook app which has quietly collected of the BILLION pins our community has collectively placed into online maps -- odds are pretty good that we'll find you someone to ask.

Marketing ended up calling it "Trip Friends", and there's a lot of great press about it: http://www.google.com/search?tbs=nws%3A1&q=%22trip+frien...

The bit that's interesting to me is the careful (at least retroactively viewed) plan that led here.

We built this app on Facebook which allow people to put pins on their map. It was done in the fury of initial Facebook apps which were land grabs -- no real sense of what the data'd be used for, but with a sense that a footprint in that space would be valuable. Also it turns out that a with a finely tuned UI, people love to put pins on maps! It taps into some baseline lower-reptilian instinct, which explains our consistent 8 million monthly users.

Fast-forward about 3 years and we've got about a billion pins worth of data. Enough data that it's the single most painful table to deal with! And our CEO comes up with what to do with them: use them to identify which of your friends can help you plan your trip. As aside, TA is so profitable that we can worry about making your experience better rather than using sleazy tactics to just keep you on the site.

After about three months worth of work, our small team built a Facebook Connect implementation that taps into the data we've got in pins and ties it together into a clean UI that people love. It's simple, barely needs explanation, and just plains works.

If you're the sort of person who might want to be part of this sort of thing (large datasets, great UIs, big ideas, small teams), please drop me a line: sanj@tripadvisor.com

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by rantfoil »

Posterous is hiring Rails Engineers and Infrastructure Engineers - San Francisco

We're a YC-funded startup that's working on posting the world's information. We're just 7 engineers and looking to hire people who love the consumer web, believe in simplicity, and want to work on a website that can be used by billions of people.

On the infrastructure side, we're growing to one of the largest Rails sites in the world. There's a ton we do every day to keep a complex environment humming since Posterous does so much (media transcode of video, audio, photos, autoposting to millions of sites, and more, geo, importing, embed expansion, etc). Every day is a new challenge.

http://posterous.com/jobs

We're open to telecommute but haven't done it before.

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by dotBen »

cardmagic wrote: post #97

Business co-founder - Portland, OR Technical co-founder - Portland, OR Awesome developer - Portland, OR I am starting PHP Fog, which is a service like Heroku for PHP. We deploy and scale your PHP applications seamlessly in the cloud for you. You focus on development, we focus on deployment. Ping me a lucas@phpfog.com for more information.

Why do you need a business co-founder and a technical co-founder? I guess I'm just wondering what your role in the company is?

Re: Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)

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Post by sazzal »

Senior Full-stack Rails Developer - Hollywood, CA, USA

Music professionals are stuck with horribly archaic and kludgy ways of managing their music and collaborating. We're trying to fix this at Gobbler - building a downloadable, networked application that solves these problems for people who create and work with music. Think Dropbox + Yousendit + Source control - all tailored to work with multi-gigabyte music projects.

We're in closed Beta, but are getting ready for a public launch in the next 6 weeks. All of our work has been done on the downloadable application and the backend, so the actual website is pretty ugly (did I mention we're also looking for a Designer?). But we're using a lot of cool technologies, like MongoDB, Node.js, Redis, etc. And you get to work with a small team of very smart people. Plus, we're very well connected to the music industry - it's pretty amusing getting feedback directly from some of the biggest names in music.

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